Tom Sikes's blog

TEXAS SHOULD NOT PRORATE OIL, BUT MAYBE U.S. OIL STATES SHOULD?

As you also know, proration has a long history in many States to manage waste and product costs.  It may be time to implement a nationwide system in order to stabilize the industry.

I am not interested in Texas working with other governments to alter supply.  I am very much interested in examining the possibility of forming an Interstate Proration Board, as detailed below.  Such a system could:

1)   gain the US a seat at the table with OPEC and Russia

We get our ownership information from the County's tax records.  Unless very recently plugged, YOU WOULD NOT BE ON THE TAX ROLL UNLESS YOU OWNED IN A PRODUCING PROPERTY and thus you would not have received a letter from us.  You need to recover any funds in "suspense" prior to selling to us.

Royalty and mineral interests are a form of real estate.  There are two ways to transfer real estate from one party to another, by gift or by sale.  In order for a sale to be valid, something of value must be exchanged for the property.  This is something of value is known as consideration, and in our case is whatever it is we are paying you for the property.

The first paragraph of our Conveyance states:  "in consideration of the sum of Ten and more dollars ($10.00) cash in hand paid and other good and valuable consideration."